Motivational Quotes

Attitude

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

- Karolyi, Bela

Best Quotes about Attitude

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.

Ziglar, Zig

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Mandino, Og

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Ward, C. M.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Haskins, Henry S.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Beecher, Henry Ward

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Schumacher, E. F.

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Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips.

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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Swindoll, Charles

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Uhland

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

James, William

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Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Waitley, Denis

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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Langbridge, Frederick

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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Turner, Ted

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Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Nightingale, Earl

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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Holtz, Lou

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Speer, Robert E.

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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Desai, Morarji

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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Evert, Chris

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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

Armstrong, Louis

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Golas, Thaddeus

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Ziglar, Zig

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Wooden, John

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Your attitude determines your altitude.

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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Swindoll, Charles

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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Stengel, Casey

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The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

Thurber, James

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We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge.

Robinson, James H.

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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Nightingale, Earl

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Rohn, Jim

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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Jordan, Dupree

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Eric, Golnik

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Caesar, Julius

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.